Reclude

//ɹɪˈkluːd// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To open; to unblock. obsolete, transitive
  2. 2
    To close off, to confine. reflexive, transitive
  3. 3
    To seclude, cut off from the community, the world etc. reflexive, transitive

    "And, surely, no woman who knows that of herself can be rightly censured for not recluding herself from the world: it is only women without the power to love who have no right to provoke men's love."

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"And, surely, no woman who knows that of herself can be rightly censured for not recluding herself from the world: it is only women without the power to love who have no right to provoke men's love."

Etymology

From Latin reclūdere (“to open; to shut off”), from re- + claudere (“to close”).

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close offcut off

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